Leasing the Farm
![Built in 1927](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c72222cfb12edbfe2f8379d377309574f91253907cfff1e81e38c27c5c3d3c2e/house-front_print.jpg)
Built in 1927
My family farm in Ohio has leased land usage rights to a hydraulic fracking company. In addition to being a place of great personal significance, the farm is also the place where my Grandma lives and has lived for most of her life –with a significant portion of my family living on the land surrounding it. My father grew up on this land and has a deep connection with it.
Fracking on small family farms is becoming increasingly common. There are many factors as to why my family, and many like it make such a drastic decision. The idea that this industry while problematic to the environment, creates jobs in America and boosts the economy. The amount of money paid to just to sign a lease is enough to get most people grabbing a pen. One of the worst problems I have seen is ignoring the harm this type of oil extracting is causing the land.
In this project I want to bring in a personal touch, which most people ignore in debates such as this. I also want to create a dialogue between me and my family in grasping an understanding of why we have such different ideas about this topic.
Fracking on small family farms is becoming increasingly common. There are many factors as to why my family, and many like it make such a drastic decision. The idea that this industry while problematic to the environment, creates jobs in America and boosts the economy. The amount of money paid to just to sign a lease is enough to get most people grabbing a pen. One of the worst problems I have seen is ignoring the harm this type of oil extracting is causing the land.
In this project I want to bring in a personal touch, which most people ignore in debates such as this. I also want to create a dialogue between me and my family in grasping an understanding of why we have such different ideas about this topic.
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Cows
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Dad in Spring
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Start of Fall
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Feeding the cows
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Bails of hay
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Mud pasture
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Emerald Ash Bore damage
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Mom
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Truck bed travel
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Dinner time
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Food storage
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Wood for Winter
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Dad
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Pip berries
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Aunt Rhonda
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Hike in the woods
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Hunting path
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Gravestone
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Emerald Ash Bore damage #2
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Cow Talk
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Uncle Andy bailing hay
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Cousins
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The path
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Need for wood
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Discovery
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Century Farm
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Mom, Grandma, and Aunt Rhonda
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Grandma & the storage cooler
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Walnuts
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Planting walnuts
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Fall changes
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Cow 16
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Grandpa
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Desk
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Historic Homestead
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Billy's Pile
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